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We hope to be a beacon of light and hope for the continual growth and use of emerging technology in the Greater Toledo Area and beyond.

There are so many people who are doing amazing things or have great ideas and feel like they are the only ones around. We are for you!

We are a place to breed creativity, learn about new emerging technologies in areas such as web, mobile, data, & social media, we solve problems using our collective application of technology and outside the box thinking, and we facilitate the meeting of like minded people with skills you would find in California or New York right in Toledo!

Come check us out at a meet up, a learning session, or an event where we create something or help someone out!

Tech Toledo invites all information technology professionals to join us on December 12th for the 3rd Annual GeekDinner HolidayMixer. This will be the year’s largest social gathering of the IT community in the Toledo Region. Last year we had over 50 people and expect more this time.

The festivities start at 5:30pm on Thursday, December 12th, 2013. We are meeting at Packo’s at the Park, 7 South Superior Street, in downtown Toledo, in the Outfield room.

No RSVP is required (but you can use the Facebook event if you want to let us know you are coming). Just show up thirsty, with an appetite for Packo’s, money to pay for your own food and drink, and a willingness to connect with colleagues.

Many members of regional IT groups will be in attendance, holding their annual end-of-year Geek Dinners with us. The groups include Toledo Web Professionals, The Nerd Summit, NWOACM, NWOFMPUG, Toledo iOS Developers, and NWNUG. You will be able to meet the leaders and members of the groups at the event.

You are NOT required to be a member of any of these groups to attend. We welcome anyone who wants to hang out with us, such as entrepreneurs, designers, business leaders, engineers, government officials, marketing professionals.

After the geek dinner, folks may want to walk a block to the Seed Coworking holiday party.

Tech Toledo invites all information technology professionals to join us on December 11th for the 4th Annual GeekDinner HolidayMixer. This will be the year’s largest social gathering of the IT community in the Toledo Region. We have been averaging 50 people over the first 3 years.

It starts at 5:30pm on Thursday, December 11th, 2014. We are meeting at Packo’s at the Park, 7 South Superior Street, in downtown Toledo, in the Outfield room.

No RSVP is required. Show up hungry for Packo’s, money to pay for your own food and drink, and a desire to connect with colleagues.

Many members of regional IT groups will be in attendance, holding their annual end-of-year Geek Dinners with us. The groups include Toledo Web Professionals, Nerd Summit, NWOACM, ISACA, Girl Develop It Toledo, NWNUG, Toledo iOS Developers, and TALUG (and we expect more groups). You will be able to meet the leaders and members of the groups at the event.

You are NOT required to be a member of any of these groups to attend. We welcome anyone who wants to hang out with us, such as entrepreneurs, designers, business leaders, engineers, government officials and marketing professionals.

The StartUp Toledo holiday party is the same evening (at the Art Museum). The TechToledo mixer is where you can geek out with other IT folks, while StartUp Toledo will help you connect with entrepreneurs and others involved in tech startups in the region. For those who want to attend both, we will remind you when to leave the mixer and drive to the Art Museum.

The general schedule for the evening:

5:30pm – 6:00pm: Socializing and networking

6:00pm – 6:30pm: Sit down and order food

6:30pm – 7:00pm: Group introductions & announcements

7:00pm: Depart for Art Museum for those who want go to the StartUp Toledo event

Aaron Harwell & Jonathan Hawker will be talking about their journey of making an idea into a reality. Starting with their iPhone app Phototwine and beyond, they have practical experience in working with the local tech area and finding ways to continually push their ideas forward successfully. Be sure to stop by and check out one of their physical products (a new-age photo booth) that supports their apps.

Be sure to sign up for the one night stand of social networking!

PICK-A-PROJECT

We will also be giving a quick recap of our group, the value we see in doing local projects together, and hosting a brainstorming session to choose our first project and to build a core team to complete it! Be sure to check out our Trello Board to give your input and see the different available ideas.

One more thing...

We will have food & an interesting way to get to know everyone there! This should be fun!

Mark Bowlus and Mark Eberle from BiG Fab Lab will be presenting, and looking for feedback on, their concepts and preliminary plans for building and growing NorthWest Ohio makerspaces. We'd like to extend a special invitation to all those who have been involved in all makerspace attempts past and present to bring ideas and experiences.

All are welcome though as we'd like to get as much information as possible from any potential user of such a space!

For those unfamiliar, the basic concept is that it would be a facility offering access to shared equipment that an individual (or even business) may not be able to afford on their own. Everything from basic woodworking up through higher end 3-D printers and CNC machines.

"The Patentability of Software" with Ray Meiers. The Patentability of Software after the Supreme Court’s June 2014 decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International.

By The Nerd Summit.

Abstract of the presentation:

On June 19, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in ALICE CORPORATION PTY. LTD, PETITIONER v. CLS BANK INTERNATIONAL ET AL. The case involved the patentability of a software-implemented invention. The Court determined that the invention did not qualify as patentable subject matter. However, the Court did not expressly hold that software is unpatentable per se. Thus, the decision has created tremendous uncertainty about the patentability of inventions dependent on software. Thousands of issued patents may now be invalid and numerous pending patent applications may face no pathway to allowance.

The presentation will briefly describe the history of software patenting, the specific facts of the ALICE case, and the aftermath of the decision thus far. Responses to the decision will then be offered and it is hoped that the presentation will then turn into a group dialogue about the hoped-for future of software patents.

Take advantage of this special opportunity to hear about an exciting new community radio project that has recently been given the go ahead by the FCC. Our guest presenter will be glad to entertain questions about the process and talk about the technical challenges ahead.?